NSA wants to build $896.5 million supercomputing center

The National Security Agency (NSA) is designing a new $895.6 million supercomputing complex called the High Performance Computing Center, to be complete by December 2015. It will be constructed at its Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters over the next several years according to National Security Agency Military Construction, Defense-Wide FY 2012 Budget Estimates (19-page PDF via Informa...

Forget single computer, go for linked servers. Throw in eight to ten thousand Tesla's from Nvidia and your all good. Get a bunch of programmers to write whatever you need in CUDA and your set. You won't be able to match that amount of horsepower easily. Think how fast you could create a rainbow table and break a password. The NSA will have absolutely no problems getting through any modern security measures if need be.